Paint by Numbers Songtext
von Spoonboy

On the playground, you learned how to share with the kids
But you still didn′t feel you fit in
Half-bidding your confusion when you turned sixteen
You knew how to paint by numbers
But you knew it wasn't rock and roll
You learned tight pants, spray paint, and eyeliner
You said glam rock would save your soul
But you didn′t grasp that the rebellion you wanted
Wasn't something you could ever be sold


And I never understood how someone could be so willing to be
Absorbed into what I never thought could pass as identity
And I always felt bad for the kids who had to share their faces
With sad teenagers across the world
Who found something to fill their loss
Without ever addressing the cause

And I saw your speech patterns imitated exactly by a girl in Seattle
And again in Minneapolis, so I guess
You must have learned that from TV
You said you'd find yourself real, but fell that far from the goal
You had to paint by numbers but knew it wasn′t r-r-r-r-rock and roll